“I love cocaine, you can’t do music with normal eyes” – Majek Fashek

This time the hit-maker, who first gained national fame on a
television show in the early 1980s as a member of Benin-based reggae group
Jastix, openly declared his continuous patronage of stimulating substance,
cocaine.

Fashek in an interview said: “People must talk. But they
make you popular; that’s the truth. You cannot fight the press, you cannot
fight the media.

They are the ones that will tell people what is going on, so I
cannot fight the media. They said I’m crazy, I use cocaine.

Well I still use
cocaine. I dey blow my nose, I dey smoke my igbo.” Continuing, the “Send Down The Rain” crooner stated that: “As I speak to you, I
have cocaine in my pocket and in my house. I still dey use am. I can’t stop.

How will you play music with a ‘normal eye’? You can’t be a good musician
playing without getting high. Pastors dem dey high too. The truth is that you
can’t be on the human level and give the message. The humans are looking up to
you, so you must be super- human to live up to their expectations.”

However, in a country where hard drugs are literally
forbidden, it remains to be seen whether Fashek’s disclosure would attract
officials of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Only time would
tell.